Drawer hook



May 20, 1952 J. w. STRINGE DRAWER HOOK Filed June 8, 1950 de (9m QW f Patented May 20, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE i 2,597,684 DRAWER HOOK Jack W. Stringe, Oak Park, Ill.

Application June 8, 1950, Serial No. 166,861

3 Claims. (Cl. S12-333) This invention relates to a drawer hook structure. The `structure is particularly useful in connection with desks and similar furniture in which drawers are equipped with locking means. Other uses for the invention will become apparent.

In the manufacture of desks, considerable expense is incurred by reason of the necessity for providing drawer runners of special design for use with drawers and members carried by the drawers. Also, the parts required for securing accurate movement of the drawer into and out of closed position while providing locking means requiring a number of separate parts which have to be adjusted to bring about effective operation in the locking and unlocking of the drawer, etc.

An object of the present invention is to provide a drawer hook structure which permits the use of inexpensive rectilinear drawer runners requiring no special design, while at the same time providing the necessary guides, stabilizing means, and hook in one structure. Yet another object is to provide a drawer hook which, when secured to the drawer, provides accurately-related surfaces for the guiding of the drawer and stabilizing of the drawer while at the same time affording a locking hook or recess. Other specic objects and advantages will appear as the specification proceeds.

The invention is shown, in an illustrative embodiment, by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a desk drawer equipped with a hook structure embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view: Fig. 3, a broken detailed sectional View, the section being taken as indicated at line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a plan view of the stamping prior to the bending of the parts to form the hook structure embodying my invention.

In the illustration given, I designates a drawer which may be of any suitable type or construction. An ordinary rectilinear desk runner I I may be employed for supporting the drawer on each side thereof, as illustrated best in Fig. 2. Secured to the rear portion of the runner is a stop member I2 which may consist of a rubber roller carried by a pin I3 extending into the runner II. The usual latching bar I4 may be provided for the locking of the drawer. Since the latter structure is well known, a detailed description is believed unnecessary.

Secured to the rear panel of the drawer I0 are the drawer hooks I5.

The drawer hooks I5 may be formed from the blank illustrated in Fig. 4. The blank is of the shape illustrated and the parts are folded upwardly along the fold lines I6 and I'I to provide the structure as illustrated in Figs. l, 2 and 3. There is a vertical shank portion provided with spaced openings for receiving the bolts I8.

vBelow the shank portion is a forwardly-turned guide member I9 which bears against the inner side of the runner II. Below the guide member I I is the horizontal foot 20 providing the hook 2I and providing also the laterally-extending guide 22 for engaging the bottom wall of the runner II. Thus the one structure shown provides a guide extending against the inner face or wall of the runner I I and a laterally-extending flange 22 engaging the bottom side of the runner II, while at the same time providing an inwardlyextending hook lying close to the inner face of the runner I I. Further, the reinforced front edge provided by the rearwardly-turned guide I 9 is adapted to bear against the stop I2 and is thus reinforced for such repeated contacts.

With the foregoing structure, the desk drawers can be readily and accurately assembly while using ordinary or plain runners, such as runners I I, and after such initial adjustment the drawers are kept evenly and accurately in position upon the runners and with the locking and unlocking of the drawers being accomplished without difculty. The hook structure considerably reduces the time required for fabrication of the desk because by the single operation of attaching the two hooks to the desk, an accurate arrangement of the guides, stabilizing members, and hooks is brought about. With the structure shown, it is not necessary that the stabilizing surface 22 engage the bottom surface of the runner II constantly and it may lie below the surface until required to contact the surface in stabilizing the movement of the drawer in keeping it in alignment with the runner thereabove.

While in the foregoing specification I have set forth a single structure in considerable detail for the purpose of illustrating an embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that such details of structure may be varied widely by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. A drawer hook structure, comprising a vertically-extending body member having an upper portion adapted to be secured to the rear side of a desk drawer adjacent a rectilinear drawersupporting runner of the desk and a lower portion adapted to extend below the bottom of said drawer, said lower portion having a iiange at its outer edge turned at right angles thereto and adapted to slidably engage the inner face of the runner, said lower portion also having at its lower edge a, horizontally and laterally extending stabilizing ange engageable with the underface of the runner, said stabilizing flange being recessed along its inner side to provide a hook.

2. A drawer hook structure, comprising an integral body having a vertically-extending upper portion adapted to be secured to the rear side of a desk drawer adjacent the rectilinear desk runner for supporting the drawer, a lower portion adapted to extend below said drawer, a guide flange extending from the outer edge of said lower portion at right angles thereto so as to extend under the drawer and to slidably engage the inner face of the runner, and a stabilizing flange extending from the lower edge of said lower portion awa;7 from said drawer and kadapted to have its outermost portion slidably engage the bottom face of said runner, said stabilizing flange being recessed along its inner side to provide a hook.

3, In combination with a desk equipped with a pair of spaced runners of generally rectilinear cross-section, at least one of said runners being provided inwardly with a stop and the desk being provided with a locking bar adjacent the inside of said runner bearing the stop and inwardly from the stop thereon, a drawer slidable on top of said runners and equipped on both sides of its rear wall with a pair of hook members having portions extending below said drawer, each of said hook members being provided with a flange connected to the outer edge of the portion extending below said drawer and extending at right angles thereto beneath the bottom of said drawer so as to slidably engage the inner face of the adjacent runner, and each of said hook members being provided at its bottom with an integral horizontal flange extending rearwardly from said drawer and having a portion extending below the adjacent runner and adapted to slidably engage the bottom surface of said runner, said stop engaging the outer edge of the portion of said hook member extending below said drawer of at least one of said hook members, the horizontal flange of said hook member abutting said stop having a recess in the inner side thereof to provide a hook receiving said locking bar.

JACK W. STRINGE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this lpatent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 915,066 Birely Mar. 16, 1909 1,248,133 Kemp et al Nov. 27, 1917 2,180,630 Hearn Nov. 21, 1939 2,223,071 Koch Nov. 26, 1940 

